Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter
by scythe on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:14AM
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Indianapolis is a decently large city, and it's not that far north nor in an obviously cold mountainous region. Most people wouldn't recognize it as exceptionally cold for the US. It's also south of several large Midwestern cities. So, it was a good way to show that a large fraction of the US (and of course Canada) gets colder than Oslo.
Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter
by Someone on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:55AM
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For reference: Indianapolis is about 40 degrees north of the equator, Oslo about 60, so it’s over 2,000 km more closer to the equator. Indianapolis is at about the latitude of Madrid.
The Gulf Stream really works.
Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter
by oh_sigh on Friday March 04, 2022 @01:28PM
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Not only the Gulf Stream, but also the polar jet stream, which frequently dips down into the American midwest in winter, making the temperature in Indianapolis about as cold as it is much further north in Canada. Sometimes even colder.
e.g. https://cms.accuweather.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/stati...
Why not Minneapolis, or Cheyenne, or some other North American city that is also away from the coasts? Why not Regina?
I think part of the problem is that because EVs are still new, people are going to expect or demand reliability. It's only better if it's better in every way.
When I worked in a cold city, you would occasionally hear people say, "Sorry I'm late for work, boss. Car wouldn't start, and I had to get a jump."
Because it's new, saying, "Sorry I'm late for work, boss. It's cold, so my car had less range and I had to stop at the Slurp-n-Burp to recharge" isn't going to be met with the same level of sympathy.